Sat, Apr 27, 2002

It never did ring true when campaign finance reformers said their primary motive was to reduce corruptive money in politics. But reports of Democratic plans to exploit loopholes in the new law show an astonishing level of cynicism.

The current generation in control of the major media, especially television, came of age in the 1960s, when no cause was a nobler excuse for putting balanced coverage aside than the fight for black civil rights.

Thu, Apr 25, 2002

Conservative Hollywood celebrities are an endangered species -- and they're moving one step closer to extinction. Sad to say, but rock-ribbed Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger has grown flabby and flown leftward.

We all heard how this past weekend, anti-global-capitalism partisans demonstrated, angrily, but mostly peacefully in Washington, not far from where World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings were being held.

Although the discussions between the Cardinals and the Pope in Rome have
understandably focused on expediting the process for punishing abusers, the
Church must soon direct its attention to fighting those using the scandal as
a Trojan horse to surreptitiously undermine traditional Catholic teaching on
sexuality.

Some always look for root causes to justify inexcusable behavior in the world. But they search in vain, because a mask of moral relativism obscures their vision. The cause is evil, and it provides no excuses.

If you want to know why, despite our deep splendors of democracy, free markets, limited government and the rule of law, American culture seems threatening to many Asian and African societies, look no further than the latest Supreme Court ruling on child pornography.

Nothing sums up the history of the Middle East conflict better than Aldous Huxley's observation that, "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."

As the biotech lobby mobilizes in Washington this week to fight anti-human cloning legislation, a new national poll shows the industry's Senate Democratic allies on a course fraught with political danger.